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Author : Thomas R. Lee
Publisher : Lee Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780916244040
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Rock Island Westward written by Thomas R. Lee and published by Lee Publications. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill Marvel
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253011310
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Rock Island Line written by Bill Marvel and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the rich history of the legendary railroad that spanned the American Midwest in this beautifully illustrated volume. Beginning operations in the mid-nineteenth century, the Rock Island Line served farms and small-town America for more than 140 years. One of the earliest railroads to build westward from Chicago, it was the first to span the Mississippi, advancing the frontier, bringing settlers into the West, and hauling their crops to market. Rock Island’s celebrated Rocket passenger trains also set a standard for speed and service, with suburban runs as familiar to Windy City commuters as the Loop. For most of its existence, the Rock battled competitors much larger and richer than itself. When it finally succumbed, the result was one of the largest business bankruptcies ever. Today, as its engines and stock travel the busy main lines operated by other carriers, the Rock Island Line lives on in the hearts of those whom it employed and served.
Author : Robert S. Farnsworth
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480927074
Total Pages : 727 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Grand Western Railroad Game written by Robert S. Farnsworth and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grand Western Railroad Game By: Robert S. Farnsworth The Grand Western Railroad Game by Robert S. Farnsworth is a fascinatingly detailed story of the historical importance of Western railroads. It has been meticulously written to educate the reader on the intricacies involved in the creation and growth of the Rock Island System over the “Empire Years.” The railroad’s premium passenger train service even inspired the popular song “The Rock Island Line is a Mighty Fine Line.” To quote the author, “I wrote this book, not from just the viewpoint of a rail fan, hundreds of whom have diligently photographically documented the railroad’s passage through time, but from the viewpoint of a former employee and from the insights gained from a broad education in both the university and in the experience of a practiced transportation planner. I hope that the reader will learn from the stories told here that the workers tried valiantly to do their jobs, that the line’s managers were forced to play with the hand that was dealt to them from a less than full deck, and that investors expected to get a reasonable return on the often gigantic sums paid into the corporation. “I hope that the information contained within these covers leads others toward more detailed studies of the railroads and of the conditions in which they survived, if not prospered.”
Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743203173
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Nothing Like It In the World written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-11-06 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
Author : Billy Bragg
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571327761
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)
Download or read book Roots, Radicals and Rockers written by Billy Bragg and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZERoots, Radicals & Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World is the first book to explore this phenomenon in depth - a meticulously researched and joyous account that explains how skiffle sparked a revolution that shaped pop music as we have come to know it. It's a story of jazz pilgrims and blues blowers, Teddy Boys and beatnik girls, coffee-bar bohemians and refugees from the McCarthyite witch-hunts. Billy traces how the guitar came to the forefront of music in the UK and led directly to the British Invasion of the US charts in the 1960s.Emerging from the trad-jazz clubs of the early '50s, skiffle was adopted by kids who growing up during the dreary, post-war rationing years. These were Britain's first teenagers, looking for a music of their own in a pop culture dominated by crooners and mediated by a stuffy BBC. Lonnie Donegan hit the charts in 1956 with a version of 'Rock Island Line' and soon sales of guitars rocketed from 5,000 to 250,000 a year. Like punk rock that would flourish two decades later, skiffle was a do-it-yourself music. All you needed were three guitar chords and you could form a group, with mates playing tea-chest bass and washboard as a rhythm section.
Author : H. Roger Grant
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025304989X
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book A Mighty Fine Road written by H. Roger Grant and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad's history is one of big booms and bigger busts. When it became the first railroad to reach and then cross the Mississippi River in 1856, it emerged as a leading American railroad company. But after aggressive expansion and a subsequent change in management, the company struggled and eventually declared bankruptcy in 1915. What followed was a cycle of resurrections and bankruptcies; a grueling, ten-year, ultimately unsuccessful battle to merge with the Union Pacific; and the Rock Island's final liquidation in 1981. But today, long after its glory days and eventual demise, the "Mighty Fine Road" has left behind a living legacy of major and feeder lines throughout the country. In his latest work, railroad historian H. Roger Grant offers an accessible, gorgeously illustrated, and comprehensive history of this iconic American railroad.
Author : M.L. Stedman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451681755
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book The Light Between Oceans written by M.L. Stedman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title.
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Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book United States Coast Pilot written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aidan Power
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780955268403
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (684 download)
Download or read book Rock Island, Crookhaven written by Aidan Power and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J.W. Norie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book New Piloting Directions for the Coasts, Harbours, and Islands of North America from Labradore, Or New Britain, to the Entrance of the River Mississippi ... written by J.W. Norie and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmund March Blunt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The American Coast Pilot written by Edmund March Blunt and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. National Bureau of Standards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Measurement of Time and Tests of Timepieces written by United States. National Bureau of Standards and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Interstate Commerce Commission Reports written by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
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Author : U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (359 download)
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Author : United States. Hydrographic Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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Author : Great Britain. Hydrographic Dept
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
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